Adele's 30 becomes first album to sell 1 million copies in the US in over a year
Adele has broken another chart record with 30, becoming the first album in over a year to sell a million copies in America.
According to US chart data gathered by Billboard, 30 has now reached over one million traditional sales (that would be across digital downloads, CDs, vinyl and cassettes). It's first-week sales amounted to 692,000 from November 19-25, while last week (December 2) its sales were 225,000.
30 becomes the first album to reach this sales milestone in over a year, and the first album of 2021 to do so. The last artist to crack a million pure sales was Taylor Swift with her first surprise album of 2020, Folklore.
Interestingly enough, Folklore was the only album to reach that milestone in the US in 2020, while in 2019 the only album to sell the same amount was Taylor's seventh record, Lover.
MORE: Adele's Official Charts history in full
Meanwhile, over on this side of the Atlantic, 30 has been reigning supreme at the top of the Official Albums Chart for two weeks, and it's looking to extend that to a third this Friday.
For both of those two weeks, Adele has also managed to score the rare Official Charts Double, meaning she was Number 1 on both the Official Albums Chart with 30 and on the Official Singles Chart with Easy On Me.
Upon its debut, 30 scored the biggest opening week of 2021 so far, with chart sales totalling 261,000. It became Adele’s fourth UK Number 1 album; she has now reached Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with all of her studio albums, a record for a female act
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RyanT
taylor records are more impressive..considering she has had 3 releases in as many years and 2 of them as million sellers. Adele decline is huge and she will sell even less when 33 or 35 or 37 or 38 comes out
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Courtney Puzzo
1,000,000 albums sold isn't mammoth for a big artist which Adele is. 25's first week total in the US was 3.48 million the first album to sell 3 million in a single week the highest before that was NSYNC's No Strings Attached at 2.416 million in a single week in March 2000 though that album ended up selling 9.94 million in that calendar year still the largest sales in a single calendar year in the Soundscan/MRC era
timmusicmaniac@yahoo.ca
Her last album 25 sold in the US it's first week 3 million copies...so you can see how the sales are falling for all artist...
Erik Alexander Dobler
You are so right